Corporate Welfare

President Clinton's signing of the bill to "dismantle the Welfare State" by cutting off what little help the U.S. federal government offered its poorest citizens will do nothing to ease the tax burden of middle class America nor to dismantle the real welfare state. The poor have become a scapegoat for the federal deficit, covering over the real reasons for this country's massive debt: corporate welfare, or subsidies to the rich. If you really want to help dismantle the welfare state, look at the evidence contained in the following sites and stop blaming the poor!

The Hidden Entitlements from Citizens for Tax Justice. Learn what politicians really mean when they say no new taxes.... they will continue to tax us to death while letting rich corporations off the hook. This is CTJ's complete study of the U.S. government's hidden welfare for the rich.
The Other Welfare Queens: read this before you complain about tha lady with the Cadillac who is on Food Stamps.
The Real Welfare Cheats by Randolph Holhut
Citizens Against Government Waste publishes the monthly Waste-Watcher online.
Tax Subsidies Reward Corporate Downsizers -- hey! They get a tax break if they fire your ass!
Corporate Welfare: Great series from the Boston Globe from July 1996.
Dirty Little Secrets: Friends of the Earth Exposes U.S. government tax breaks to corporate polluters. FOE also publishes The Green Scissors Report.
The Zero Deficit Plan - the real way to cut the deficit.
Two reports by the conservative Cato Institute -- Ending Corporate Welfare as We Know It and How Corporate Welfare Won
Corporate Welfare Resources from Charlotte's Web, a great collection of links to political and economic resources.
Corporate Welfare Information Center, fron Envirolink.
Corporate Welfare Resources from the UTNE Reader
America: Who Stole the Dream: Excellent piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer on the declining U.S. economy and the destruction of the Middle Class. Reports that unemployment in the U.S. in the 1990s is the result of deliberate and systematic government policy rather than forces beyond our control.
Been Laid Off due to NAFTA? Tell your story to the press! Here's the phone number and address to contact.

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